‘Dangerously misguided’: the glaring problem with Thomas Heatherwick’s architectural dreamworld

The designer’s new book Humanise spearheads a campaign excoriating decades of bad building. Has he forgotten his own expensive disasters? Our critic hasn’t

David Shrigley turns 6,000 The Da Vinci Code novels into Nineteen Eighty-Four

Artist creates new edition of Orwell classic after Swansea charity shop had its fill of Dan Brown bestseller

Trippy eagles, vagina wounds, dragon intimacy: how medieval art got weird

A Twitter account of the oddest illustrations from the middle ages has now become a book. Behind these naive drawings, author Olivia M Swarthout says, lie serious truths

Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World review – Thomas Heatherwick’s simplistic critique of modern architecture

The designer is right to criticise boring buildings, but picks his targets poorly and shows no inclination to confront the forces that create such structures

Drink, lechery and fellatio by snake: was the Renaissance a sexually subversive love-in?

From Bosch’s crazed party to the homoerotic images Michelangelo smuggled into the Vatican, this was an age of taboo-busting. And, as our writer argues in a new book, it sparked its own culture wars

‘Demand interestingness’: Thomas Heatherwick rails against boring buildings

Designer says soulless structures make people stressed and lonely as he launches book and campaign

Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits by Claudia Acott Williams; Queen Elizabeth II: A Photographic Portrait by Philip Ziegler – review

Two collections of photographs, one newly updated, reveal how important society snappers such as Cecil Beaton were in establishing the royals as sacrosanct figures

The big picture: eyes down for Daniel Meadows’s vision of a 1970s bingo hall

H​alf a century ago, the British portrait photographer captured ​regulars at a Northumberland game as part of his celebrated 14-month tour of England

On my radar: Orhan Pamuk’s cultural highlights

The Nobel prize-winning novelist on the wonders of the Louvre, a powerful film adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s memoir and being mesmerised by Tacita Dean

‘I am the witness and the subject’: Magnum photographer Jim Goldberg on telling his own story

Now 70, the revered photographer, known for documentary projects such as Raised By Wolves, has turned the focus on himself with a photobook chronicling his own journey via birth, love, death…

The big picture: the otherworldly scenes of the great Deborah Turbeville

The renowned fashion photographer creates a mood of ‘haunted neoclassicism’ in this image shot near Paris in the 80s

On my radar: Oneohtrix Point Never’s cultural highlights

The experimental musician and producer on a mind-blowing Guatemalan cellist, the joys of ‘smear frames’ in old-school animated films and his favourite brand of vegan caviar

‘I try to photograph the unseen’: Michael Kenna on 50 years of shooting breathtaking landscapes

A new book celebrates half a century of work by the landmark English photographer, who has captured everything from factories to shrines in stunning black-and-white images

‘It has a price’: war photographer Corinne Dufka on capturing conflict

The esteemed photographer has spent more then a decade in places such as Bosnia and Liberia, remembered in a powerful new book

Cartoonists create colouring book for refugees in rebuff to UK government

Welcome to Britain produced after minister ordered mural at Kent migrant centre to be painted over